The Outlandish, the Realistic, and the Real: Contextual Manipulation and Agent Role Effects in Trolley Problems

Hypothetical trolley problems are widely used to elicit moral intuitions, which are employed in the development of moral theory and the psychological study of moral judgments. The scenarios used are outlandish, and some philosophers and psychologists have questioned whether the judgments made in suc...

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Main Authors: Natalie eGold, Briony D. Pulford, Andrew M. Colman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00035/full